Believed or not she makes all kind of rubber stamps (lots of teachers are buying from her via Etsy). She cut and engrave them with a laser. The stamps are about 3/8" thick and she wanted to be able to stack 3 of them.
Normand
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Believed or not she makes all kind of rubber stamps (lots of teachers are buying from her via Etsy). She cut and engrave them with a laser. The stamps are about 3/8" thick and she wanted to be able to stack 3 of them.
Normand
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OK. Glad to hear it because I did not want to say - "Gosh Norman, kind of looks like one of those machinest's chests only better" if it was for underwear/socks/scarves/etc. Where did you source the handles?
David
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My father was a machinist and I still have his chest. My daughter wanted something similar.
Handles are from LeeValley.
Normand
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Nice,that's one of those things that everybody wants. And decades from now if it's on Ebay it will be "rare ,possibly one of a kind custom ordered GERSTNER chest"....so put your name and claim on it in several places!
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On first sight my thought was your daughter is an architect and needed storage for drawings or maybe she worked with stained glass.The stamps are about 3/8" thick and she wanted to be able to stack 3 of them.
Very nice chest of drawers.
jtk
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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Jim,
Many years back she draw this post card and she sells a large number of them each year (+ many other ones now). Most Canadian Parks have that card for sale. For now she still have a regular job but between stamps and post cards it's getting to be a fair business. She's an artist!
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Merry Christmas to all,
Normand
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I'm pretty sure I need to make one of these. Can you post a picture of the interior that illustrates how you handled the drawer slides?Originally Posted by Normand Leblanc
Sharp solves all manner of problems.
[OP]
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Very nice work Normand! I like your use of NK drawers.
Bumbling forward into the unknown.
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Rob,
I've used Russian birch plywood for the bottom of the drawers and the slides. Slides have been glued for 2-3" near the front and then nailed. My father machinist chest was done like that and it's still working fine after 50+ years. A divider was used for locating each slide position and the drawer fronts were made slightly higher than required. All I had to do is plane down one by one those fronts for a perfect fit.
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Brian,
I had to do some research to find what NK stand for..."which are the initials of a Swedish store Nordiska Kompaniet". Thanks.
Normand
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I`ve certainly seen that card and the others in our park stores Normand. Nice to make the connection. Your daughter has talent, like her father!
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Here's one of my hand-tool projects.
It's a linenfold panel chest, made of white pine (because that's what I had lots of) and finished with shellac. I used a couple of rebate planes, hollows & rounds, jack, jointer, smoother, and badger planes. Four carving chisels for the ends of the linenfold. I made the panels initially as a set of samples for a demo/lecture on linenfold carving. Each end of each panel was completed to a different stage, as examples. The panels were buried in the shop under a pile of junk on the tablesaur for years (It's SWMBO's saw, not mine, and it gets used about once every 5 years) until I needed a box for our kitchen gear at the Pennsic War.
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If I was to make another it would be birch or cherry, something that carves a bit easier then pine. Pine is just too soft, it was a serious challenge to my sharpening skills to cut that stuff without making a hash of it.
Darrell
Merry Christmas to all!
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User
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Linenfold! Bet it is the only one around for quite a distance! It's a form I always associate with riven oak and dark color but that is a nice cheerful and useful interpretation. And that particular carving design seems to have unusually high relief.
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My downstairs bathroom for some reason does not have any baseboard. The rest of the house has a baseboard with a very simple profile, and with some time off for Christmas I am making some up so we can install it and make the bathroom look a little nicer. Here is a picture of a couple of the lengths I made this afternoon, with the tools used.
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The profile is 1/2" x 3", with the top 1/2 inch or so rounded off sort of like a quarter round. I started with a length of 1 x 3 from Home Depot. After marking the profile on the stock, I use a block plane to bevel the edge, removing much of the waste, then a round to cut it to final dimension. For some reason it seems to come out best when I use a slightly larger round for the final passes, hence the two rounds even though what I am making is basically a glorified piece of quarter round. Then it is just a matter of marking the backside of the stock, and thinning to 1/2" thick with the jack.
Hardly the world's most complicated project, and far short of what many folks have posted. Interesting and enjoyable though.
[OP]
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Got a new wood block print, old but new to me. Made a frame for it in AYC;
That made my hodgepodge-slapdash straightedge holder look pretty ugly.
I was very proud of myself, but my wife suggested that I get back to productive work straight away.
Bumbling forward into the unknown.
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Built two Bent arm Morris chairs.Maple and Walnut. Hand tools only.
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